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He says, “it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud”, Genesis 9. Have you ever discerned the bow in the cloud? The fact is this, I have no doubt that when clouds come over any of us personally, the bow is discernible there.

Did you ever come under a cloud of sorrow? You may depend upon it, if you have your eyes open, you will see the bow. The bow is the token of God’s covenant with you. What can baffle you if God has entered into a covenant of blessing with you? Directly the cloud comes, do not look at the cloud, but look at the bow. The bow is the token of the blessing, the token of the covenant. So he says, “when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud”; and He adds, “I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh”. I think that is a wonderful thing, and I would again say to my brethren, that when the cloud comes (clouds of sorrow come to us all), the bow is there. It is a certainty. You will discern the bow, and what is it? It is the sign of the covenant. He says, “I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you”. Are we in intimacy with God in that way? He says, “between me and you”. Draw near to God. It is just possible for you to get so near, to God that, you hear Him say, as it were, “between me and you”. As passing through the cloud of sorrow, you will hear God say to you, ‘These things are all between me and you’. And what do, they mean? The bow tells us. They mean blessing, Christ will be found in the cloud, and this is the sure token to our souls that blessing will be the result.

J. Taylor (N.S. Vol. 2, p.260)